Venus

Last year, on October 24th, Venus was apparently at its brightest. I went to my favorite place in Namadgi National Park, away from the light pollution of Canberra. I was really impressed by how bright Venus looked that night. I went there in the daylight so I could see clearly while I figured out how to compose the shot. I tried to find an interesting foreground, so I found this awesome tree and used myself as a silhouette looking at Venus. I actually enjoyed looking at it as, sometimes, I forgot I was taking a shot of myself. I had some issues though, I had to remove lots of branches from another dead tree next to it. I remove most of the small ones and later I cleaned the big branches that I couldn't lift myself in Photoshop.